The Oakland Press Blogs: Open Book: A Sports Blog: Special Moment, But Is This A Special Team?
Sometimes it isn't necessarily winning games, but how you win them that breeds confidence.
You can sense it is growing with the Tigers. Among the players. With their fans.
A turning point was when Curtis Granderson made that great catch in Cleveland early in the season. The Tigers were at a crossroad at the time - and took the right path.
Tuesday's victory over the Cubs was particularly meaningful because the Tigers rallied a couple times and won it with a walk-off home run by Ryan Raburn.
Come on. Raburn was a right-handed baitter, pinch-hitting for a left-handed hitter, Josh Anderson, against a right-handed pitcher, Kevin Gregg. Logically, the move made no sense at all. Raburn was hitting .225 at the time. It's not like he has displayed a lot of power. It was a pure "feel" move by manager Jim Leyland. Raburn made him look like a genius by crushing the ball. It was an awful pitch from Gregg. And he paid for it.
The Tigers are a flawed team. They lack punch. Their bullpen is being held together on the whims of Fernando Rodney's effectiveness, They don't really have a fifth starter. Armando Galarraga hasn't been much of a fourth one lately, either.
But the Tigers aren't beating themselves with fielding blunders and a lack of range like last season. The top three in their starting rotation has pitched as well as any trio in baseball. And the Tigers are getting far more than expected from role players.
This is a team that is essentially in first place with virtually no contribution from Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Guillen or Jeremy Bonderman.
How can that be? Somehow they have developed an intangible quality that keeps building. It's almost July, you know. This team seems in it for the long haul.
- Best move of the season so far by the Tigers: Calling up Donald Kelly and sending Clete Thomas to Toledo. Thought it was a curious move at the time, but it turned out to be the right decision, didn't it?
- Not going to miss Donald Fehr as head of baseball's Players Association? Me neither. He was as big a part of the steroids scandal as Bud Selig, as far as I'm concerned.
down here in Florida, I dont have the opportunity to watch to many tigers games, but i did get a chance to see the game last night thanks to WGN. I only saw 1 at bat from Don Kelley and that was in the last inning. The mechanics of his swing are really good in my opinion. They did a slow motion of an inside pitch he fouled off and it was amazing how he was able to keep his hands inside that tough pitch (that same pitch would have been a strike 3 for many of the guys on the team with the better HR capability but with swings that have poorer mechanics). The way he worked the count in the 9th inning and got on base is so much bigger than a guy that hits a meaningless home run at a random part of the game. We get so caught up in the stats that we forget about the little things that win ball games (prob why the yankees have the highest payroll with nothing to show for it in some time). Maybe kelley is an example of billy beane's money ball (or sabrnomics). just my thoughts.
That the ticket Pat, three good starters and two good set-up guys and good closer. Play good defense and have a little speed. The Tigers are getting close to the mark. The only thing the Tigers are lacking is another big bat.
This Tigers team intrigues me. I truly believe that if they can just make it to October, they have a shot at getting hot, riding Verlander and Jackson, and pulling off a stunner like the '06 Cardinals. It would truly be something for this area to be proud of. We need it. It would be similar to the '68 team and how the city rallied behind them.
Maybe I'm dreaming, because this team certainly is flawed like you said, but you're right. They have a real shot to be in the thick of it come late August and September. They just might be the real deal.
Kelly does have smooth swing, but I do expect him to slow down. It was a huge at bat in that game. Pony up for the MLB package. It's not that much.
All that - and be in the American League Central where you dom't have to win that many games to reach the postseason.
For some reason your comment didn't post, but it was a good one about Kelly's at bat. Very perceptive.
Great point. The rotation is shortened to three pitchers. Teams have won it riding just two. Remember the '87 Twins with Viola and Blyleven.
I think the best move of the season is Magglio cutting his hair...it's about time!!
I would add Sunday's game to that list of games that 'good teams win', against a really good pitcher (Gallardo),with one swing of the bat (Inge).
I wouldn't say pinch-hitting the righty Raburn for the lefty Anderson "logically made no sense" because of the righty/lefty matchup. In fact, logically it made the most sense.
Right-handers are hitting .50 points higher than lefties off Gregg and righties have a slugging average is .100 points higher than lefties.
Add to that the fact Raburn is a better hitter for both average and power than Anderson, and it made good sense.
Leyland knew the numbers and went with them.


Hobart is home to both Australian and French Antarctic Research and supply ships. Both "Aurora Australis" and "L'Astrolabe" are bright orange/red ice breaker ships, which we regularly see entering and leaving the city during the summer months.
Hobart is a natural deep water port, and when you head out into the Southern Ocean, the next stop is Antarctica, 2,500 km away.
One of the highlights of last weekend's Antarctic Festival was public tours of the two ships. Tickets sold out quickly but we managed to go on board the French Ship. With a crew of 12 and up to 50 scientists, the ship takes five days or more to get to the Antarctic coast, depending on the sea ice. It has a helipad and space in the cargo deck for two helicopters.
The tour around the inside of the ship was fascinating, with current scientists and crew talking about aspects of their work during a trip south. A volunteer spoke about the year he spent on Macquarie Island back in the 1950's researching the wildlife there.
None of today's communications, just a telegram from home every three months. They took a cow with them on their trip, to get fresh milk, but had to take food for her, as no grass down there. They pegged out an area and counted the number of penguins within the area, to them estimate the size of the colony around them. They estimated over half a million birds, who they could walk amongst when the females weren't nesting. We could have listened to him for hours, unfortunately each tour was carefully timed.
"Aurora Australis" is four times bigger than "L'Astrolabe" but have similar facilities and cover similar work. Both ships are approaching thirty years of age and are soon to be decommissioned.
Here are 2 photos from a festival brochure.
Awesome ships! Thank you for sharing with us.
Glad you enjoyed the post Amy.
It would be so interesting to go on board one of these ships and check them out. Is there an Antarctic Festival every year?
Sue, this was the first one, but seems to have been successful, so perhaps it will become a regular event.
This tour would have been fascinating! Antarctic has long been on our list of places to visit and we came very close one year to doing just that … unfortunately other stuff got in the way. I still dream ….
Thanks Joanne. I think I'll observe Antarctica from a distance. I have a few more posts for later in the week. It was an interesting festival.
Thanks for sharing. That's so interesting about how scientists used to work with telegrams and a cow haha.
My old neighbour spent a year down there, so we got some lovely stories from him. Sadly he has passed away now (he was younger than me). I still have a photo on my wall that he gave me of two penguins sleeping he took from close up.


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Inseego to Showcase How Airlines Save Millions $USD with Ctrack Asset Management & Tracking at GSE Expo
Business Wire October 1, 2018
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Hannover and Stanstead among highlighted airports using the Ctrack airport solution to save cost, maximize ROI and transform operations; Exhibit 802
Inseego Corp. (INSG), a pioneer in 5G and intelligent IoT device-to-cloud solutions, is showcasing its award-winning Ctrack Aviation Asset Management and Tracking solution at GSE Expo. Leading global airlines, airports and GSE partners will be among the entities highlighting the effectiveness of Ctrack in solving the unique operational challenges that airlines face around the world.
"For us, this combination of pure tracking with an intelligent fleet management system is the perfect solution: from enabling complete visibility, control, security, billing, maintenance to asset efficiency," says René Jeske, Head of Equipment Services at Hannover Aviation Ground Services (AGS). "The system provides us great visibility into our operations." Hannover Aviation Ground Services is the first equipment solutions provider in Germany to adopt the Ctrack Aviation Asset Management and Tracking solution.
"Building on Inseego's rich history as a pioneer in IoT cloud asset management and tracking, the Ctrack device-to-cloud airport solutions are purpose-built with our Aviation partners to truly transform ground operations worldwide," said John Weldon, Senior Vice President, Enterprise SaaS Solutions at Inseego. "The bottom line is that we work very closely with airline customers to optimize the inventory and utilization of their GSE fleets, ultimately saving millions of dollars, increasing efficiency and maximizing return on investment. Everyone wins, especially airline passengers."
Internet of Things (IoT): The Ultimate Enabler of Airport & Airline Operational Improvements
The Airports Council International states that the IoT will be a fundamental enabler for a wide range of operational improvements within airports from preventative maintenance and cost savings of Ground Support Equipment (GSE) to an overall better passenger experience.
GSEs represent a growing market with a projected valuation of $25B by 20221. Preventative maintenance and asset optimization delivered by the Inseego solution is proven to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership for these high-value assets.
For additional information, or to schedule a meeting with Inseego at the GSE Expo, October 2-4 in Las Vegas, contact aviation@inseego.com.
To learn more about the latest deployment with Hannover Aviation Ground Services, visit https://www.inseego.com/hannover-ags-digitizes-airfield-ctrack/.
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About Inseego Corp.
Inseego Corp. (INSG) enables high performance mobile applications for large enterprise verticals, service providers and small-medium businesses around the globe. Our product portfolio consists of Enterprise SaaS solutions and IoT & Mobile solutions, which together form the backbone of compelling, intelligent, reliable and secure IoT services with deep business intelligence. Inseego powers mission critical applications with a "zero unscheduled downtime" mandate, such as asset tracking, fleet management, industrial IoT, SD WAN failover management and mobile broadband services. Our solutions are powered by our key innovations in purpose-built SaaS cloud platforms, IoT and mobile technologies including the newly emerging 5G technology. Inseego is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices worldwide. www.inseego.com
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Unless you've attained independent wealth and the constraints of day-to-day responsibilities of career, children, meetings and financial obligations are no longer hijacking your time, the ability to travel to Napa Valley once per week and partake of the best wines from Cabernet to Pinot Noir, is nearly impossible. However, the desire to enjoy a weekly escapade of fine wine, exploration, luxury travel and sensational dining we hope never fades. If you were able to pull off weekly trips to Napa, how long would it take before you ran out of wineries? The answer may surprise you.
Many people are shocked to learn there's anywhere between 850-1,000 commercially licensed wineries in Napa County alone! If we use the number of 900 wineries and visiting five wineries per weekend (you're a professional), it would take you nearly 3.5 years to get through all the wineries. Granted, you would log quite a few miles and the travel would be exhausting but oh the stories you could tell and the wine you would taste.
There is however an easier way—DTC.
In the wine world, the fastest growing industry segment is direct to consumer or DTC. "Since 2010, value of the direct-to-consumer shipping industry has increased 66%, and 2015 proved to be another growth year for the channel." (Read more at winesandvines.com).
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The reasons are simple and growing: consumers want options, consumers want savings and consumers like knowing precisely where their wine is coming from, how it's produced and to know the people making it. Additionally, when consumers learn there are about 5-7 companies controlling 85-90% of every wine shelf in retail or restaurant list in the country, they get angry. Their voices are being heard and nowhere is this more compelling than at Cellar Angels. Once each week we introduce you to a winery you probably have never heard of and more likely will never find in your local market. The reason being is production. For the most part, those five to seven companies don't want to fuss with a winery producing only 500 cases as it's not economically viable to do so. Hence fine wine consumers all over the country can now receive an email, alerting them to the Cellar Angels weekly wine feature. They can buy wine online and check a box designating their charity of choice - Cellar Angels takes care of the rest. The charity receives a donation from Cellar Angels and the consumer receives some of the industry's best wine delivered to their door, direct from the winery.
The next time you're walking the wine aisle and all the labels from store to store start looking the same, remember it's because they are. Those stores all purchase from the same companies. But not you because remember, you're a professional and you enjoy the finer things in life. Things like having the best wines from Napa and Sonoma delivered direct to your door.


When my friend Howard Dean and I first talked about forming a new organization, it was because we were blown away by the energy and commitment shown by activists — new and old — in the aftermath of the 2016 election. We asked ourselves: What can we do to help them?
Onward Together was formed as a way to support and connect the groups that are doing the work that absolutely needs to be done right now — from mobilizing voters to encouraging and training new activists to recruiting people who are ready to run for office themselves. In 2017, we partnered with 11 organizations headed up by by smart, passionate leaders. We offer funding and strategic advice, and connect them with resources.
And this spring, we finally had a chance to bring those leaders together in one place, and it was really something special.
Take a moment to watch the video we've made celebrating our first Onward Together convening.
The leaders who joined us in New York come from every background. Some of them have been doing this work for years, while some were motivated by the 2016 election. They have different interests and approaches, but all share a belief that our country can be made better by the people who love it.
I really hope you'll take a moment to watch this video, because I think you'll find these activists as inspiring as I do — and I hope you'll learn more about a group you'd like to support yourself.
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Wyndham Joins iVillage.com as Business Travel Channel Sponsor - InternetNews.
Dallas-based Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has signed with iVillage.com as the network's business travel channel sponsor, making it the first hotel company to partner with the Internet-based destination for women.
Members of iVillage.com will now have access to a variety of travel tips collected since 1995 from Wyndham's program for women business travelers, Women on Their Way. Wyndham will market various promotional offers and packages on the site. Financial arrangements were not disclosed.
Wyndham will also test-market various new aspects of Women on Their Way on iVillage.com, soliciting feedback in order to shape future business decisions.
Another element of the partnership includes an advertising agreement that involves the placement of Wyndham banners throughout iVillage.com, and the development of pages that will act as "bridges" to www.wyndham.com and www.womenbusinesstravelers.com.
Scheduled to launch later this month, these bridge pages will provide members with detailed information about Wyndham Hotels & Resorts properties, its resort Personal Vacation Planner concept, as well as Wyndham vacation and leisure specials.


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Ask Uber to Add a Tipping Feature to All of Its Rides!
by: Peter Faris
recipient: Travis Kalanick, Co-founder & CEO, Uber
Tipping is customary in the transportation business, but Uber currently does not have an option to tip your driver on most rides.
I've been an Uber driver for 2.5 years, and I have a great working relationship with the company. Often, passengers tell me they'd like to provide a tip. But if they don't have cash, they can't do so through the Uber app.
Your Uber fare includes a default 20% tip when you take UberTAXI (an Uber-taxi partnership), but if you're riding in an UberX, UberBlack, or UberSUV, there's no way to tip your driver.
Tipping is a surefire way to extend goodwill toward your driver. It's a gesture of appreciation for a job well done, and there's no reason to deny drivers and passengers this option. Uber's competitor, Lyft, includes this feature on all rides. Considering many drivers rely on Uber as a primary income source, it makes sense to allow us to earn a little extra money when passengers feel we've done a good job.
Uber doesn't prevent drivers from accepting a cash tip, but many people use Uber because they no longer carry cash, so it makes sense to have tipping as an in-app option.
I love working for Uber, and I want to see the app become even better. Please sign my petition to ask Uber to add a tipping feature to all of its ride options!
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Mr. Kalanick,
We the undersigned humbly request Uber add a tipping feature to its app. We appreciate the convenience, freedom, and choice Uber brings to our lives, and we want to see the app become even better.
Many Uber drivers report passengers have requested a tipping feature. Tipping is simply a gesture of appreciation for a job well done, and there's no reason to deny drivers and passengers this option. Your competitor, Lyft, includes this feature on all rides, while Uber only allows tipping with UberTAXI rides.
Considering many drivers rely on Uber as a primary income source, it makes sense to allow them to earn a little extra money when passengers feel they've done a good job. Tipping is customary in the transportation service sector. As many riders no longer carry cash, a tipping feature integrated into the app (perhaps offered as an option when the rider rates the driver) would benefit drivers by adding to their earnings and job satisfaction.


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Irma: Tesla remotely updates its electric cars to give greater range to those evacuating across Florida
Josie Cox
The Independent 11 September 2017
The update temporarily unlocked the full-battery potential for 75-kilowatt-hour Model S sedans and Model X SUVs, adding around 30 to 40 miles to their range: Getty
Tesla remotely sent a free software update to some drivers across Florida over the weekend, extending the battery capacity of cars and giving extra range to those fleeing Hurricane Irma.
According to reports, the update temporarily unlocked the full-battery potential for 75-kilowatt-hour Model S sedans and Model X SUVs, adding around 30 to 40 miles to their range.
"Cars with a 75-kilowatt-hour battery pack were previously software limited to 210 miles of driving range per single charge and will now get 249 miles, the full range capacity of the battery," the company wrote on a blog.
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Tesla apparently decided to take action after the Florida-based owner of one of its cars reached out to the company and asked for a temporary upgrade to make it out of the evacuation zone. The upgrade will reportedly remain in place until 16 September.
Tesla was not immediately available for comment when contacted by The Independent.
More than six million people were ordered to evacuate their homes over the weekend, before Hurricane Irma on Sunday made landfall in Florida Keys.
Many said that it was near impossible to leave the area due to traffic jams, expensive flights and empty petrol stations.
The hurricane had previously killed 23 people and devastated a series of Caribbean islands.
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The latest EOS Podcast from Brandon Parker features Fuzzy! A DPOS legend who's creative mind will take you down a rabbit hole from which you may never return, basically he has a wealth of knowledge to share.
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Bill Hybels once said, "Everyone wins when a leader gets better." We believe that the influence of a good leader can be felt for generations, which is exactly why the Women's Leadership Training Institute is so vital. We are training a variety of leaders from different generations, different denominations, and different villages. Imagine the impact when so many women with varying backgrounds come together to lead their communities well. The ripple effect would be unstoppable.
This is the dream of ALARM and our WLTI teaching team, and with your help, we are making this dream a reality.
Lives are changing because of you. Communities are being transformed because of your partnership. Because of you, one of the conference attendees was able to say, "It is not easy to tell people that Jesus saves while they're starving. But there is a great harvest in our church because of the trainings I have received here."
This is the power of the global Church. There is an African proverb that says, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." When we come together to empower and equip others, God's love spreads like wildfire.
A good leader knows that the success of their influence and vision is largely dependent on their ability to communicate well, and good communication is a mixture of talking and listening. That's why we spend a long time training the WLTI attendees on communication skills such as active listening and managing conflict. Communication is a foundational part of any thriving ministry. On the third day of our leadership development and mentoring conference, we spent time reviewing communication skills, coaching, and team building. We reminded the women that they are not meant to carry the burdens of their ministry alone, that they can invite others to join them on the journey, and that they have the ability to build into others just like we are building into them now. Leaders aren't born; they're built, and we hope that this training results in a ripple effect of Christian leaders across all of Rwanda.
Thursday is the last full day of the leadership development and mentoring conference. To end the day, our WLTI team is going to model servant leadership for the conference attendees by inviting them to join us in a foot washing (John 13). We are expecting the Holy Spirit to move in powerful ways, and we are praying for God to bond all of us together in unity as we walk in light and love. We are praying for you too - that God would encourage your hearts. We believe that God can do anything, and that his power is not bound by geographical lines. Our God can transform lives and impact communities, and that is not restricted to the continent of Africa. As we train and equip and empower leaders in Rwanda, we pray that God will provide these very same opportunities for you, because even though we live on different sides of the world, we really are better together.


Alongside the album's central thematic concerns, another of Eick's larger designs continues to unfold. On his ECM albums to date the trumpeter has been spelling out a kind of sonic calendar, with compositions named for the months of the year. With Ravensburg, "August" is added to a list that already includes "March" and "November" (on Midwest), "June" (on Skala) and "October" and "December" (on The Door).
Mathias Eick has won numerous awards, including the International Jazz Festival Organization's "International Jazz Talent" prize, the Statoil Scholarship and the DNB Prize. After finishing his formal musical education at NTNU Trondheim's jazz studies, he soon gained acclaim working with artists including Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Chick Corea, Jaga Jazzist, Iro Haarla, Manu Katché, and Jacob Young. As trumpeter, vibraphonist, double bass player, guitarist and piano player he has performed on over 100 albums.
Ravensburg was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in June 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, and is issued on the eve of European tour. More dates will follow in the summer, with the band reaching Ravensburg in August.


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Orthodontic / Paediatric Dentistry
Dr Monika Demerci
Dr Monika Demerci graduated as a General Practitioner from the University of Vienna, Austria in 2007. She worked in several hospitals in Austria and New Zealand and specialised in internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery, gynaecology and psychiatry. She has been practising as a family doctor in Muscat since 2013 taking care of the whole family whether general ailments, child development assessments, minor injuries, blood tests or chronic disease management.
Dr. Demerci speaks English, German and Turkish.
Dr Olanlesi Adeponle
Dr Olanlesi Adeponle, MBChB, MRCGP (UK), graduated as a doctor in 2007 from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, after which she trained as a general practitioner in Aberdeen, Scotland. During her time in Scotland she worked in several hospitals in NHS Grampian Trust and at Albyn General Practice in Aberdeen.
Dr. Adeponle has a lot of experience in looking after patients of all ages, patients with acute medical illness, chronic diseases, minor injuries etc. She has been working as a doctor for over ten years and working at Medident since 2016.
Dr. Adeponle is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK.
Kathy Lee
Kathy Lee, R.G.N. graduated over 30 years ago from Greenwich & Bexley School of Nursing in England. She worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital, University College Hospital and Middlesex Hospital in England before moving to Oman. Kathy has been practising as a nurse in Oman since 2000 and joined the Medident team in 2004.
Kathy has a particular interest in health screening and preventative healthcare, including vaccinations and immunisations for both adults and children.
Regine Logrono
Regine Logrono graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Carlos – College of Nursing, Philippnes in 2012. She worked in the Perpetual Succour Hospital in the Philippines before commencing work in Oman in 2017.
Orthodontic / Paediatric Dentistry Team
Dr Noura Al Hachmi
Dr Noura Al Hachmi graduated as a dentist in 1997 and then specialised in Orthodontics. She worked as an orthodontist in Syria before starting to practise in Oman in 2004. Dr. Al Hachmi joined Medident in 2014.She has extensive experience in orthodontic treatments for children and adults including treatments for crowded / spaced teeth and bite problems. She uses a range of different types of fixed or removable appliances including metal / cosmetic braces and clear aligners and selects the treatment that best suits the patient.
Dr Noura has a special interest in paediatric dentistry and preventative orthodontic treatments like habit breakers and space maintainers.
She is a member of the Syrian Orthodontic Society and the Oman Ortho Club.
Physiotherapy Team
Sutasinee Tongwan
Sutasinee Tongwan has a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Chiang Mai University, Thailand, and has worked as a Physiotherapist for over 14 years. She worked in several centres in Thailand, including the Chivasom International Health Resort, before joining Medident as a senior physiotherapist in 2012.
Susie expertise encompasses sports injuries, rehabilitation exercises, deep tissue massage, pre and post natal exercise, pregnancy and baby massage and treatment of cluster headache, frozen shoulder, chronic and acute neck and shoulder pain.
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Chongchira Boothongkaew graduated with a Bachelor of Science Physiotherapy from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand in 2007 and a postgraduate diploma in Manipulative Therapy in 2008. She has extensive experience as a physiotherapist, having worked in the orthopaedic department of several hospitals in Thailand and also in a physical therapy clinic. She started working with Medident in 2017.
Chongchira is an expert in post operation exercise, joint mobilization and helping with chronic pain in the head, back and muscle. She has a particular interest in sports injuries.
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Sanga Balende have gone 5 consecutive matches without a clean sheet.
Groupe Bazano's last 4 matches had 2 or less goals.
Groupe Bazano have failed to keep a clean sheet in their previous 3 home matches.
Groupe Bazano are playing Sanga Balende at the Super Ligue of Dr Congo on December 9. The match will kick off 13:30 UTC. Groupe Bazano are 2nd in the table with 31 points after 16 matches, while Sanga Balende are 13th with 14 points in 16 matches.
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Groupe Bazano have won Lubumbashi Sport in their previous match, while Sanga Balende have played a draw with Saint Eloi Lupopo in their previous match.
Groupe Bazano have won 9 of their 16 matches in Super Ligue, drawing 4 and having 3 defeats this season. They have scored 18 goals - 1.13 per match, conceding 8 - 0.50 per match. Sanga Balende have won 3 of their 16 matches in Super Ligue, drawing 5 and having 8 defeats this season. They have scored 15 goals - 0.94 per match, conceding 30 - 1.88 per match.
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Dark Operative: A Shadow of Death
(Book 17 in the Children Of The Gods series)
"One of the best PNR series ever written." I just can't put these books down! I.T. Lucas is a masterful storyteller and has woven a complex world filled with engaging characters, intense stories and amazing dialogue that draws the reader in and never lets go. Both Turner and Bridget appear in earlier stories and Ms. Lucas has made this their time to shine. As has been her pattern, there is a second story about Roni and Sylvia that has been developing along with others that is barreling to a conclusion. Finally, we have the conflict with The Doomers and human trafficking. That's another shoe that's sure to drop in future stories.
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"FANTASTIC SERIES. This series is absolutely one of my favorite. I love being able to follow the lives of the characters from book to book and keep up with what is going on in their lives. In DARK OPERATIVE, Bridget meets Turner and the possibility of a long awaited love presents itself, but with obstacles on the horizon, there is a possibility that their romance will not be realized. As usual, I am anxiously awaiting the next installment. Oh, did I say I LOVE this series!!"
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As a brilliant strategist and the only human entrusted with the secret of immortals' existence, Turner is both an asset and a liability to the clan. His request to attempt transition into immortality as an alternative to cancer treatments cannot be denied without risking the clan's exposure. On the other hand, approving it means risking his premature death. In both scenarios, the clan will lose a valuable ally.
When the decision is left to the clan's physician, Turner makes plans to manipulate her by taking advantage of her interest in him.
Will Bridget fall for the cold, calculated operative? Or will Turner fall into his own trap?
The loneliness didn't bother Turner. He was entirely satisfied with his own company. Even sex wasn't a strong enough motivator to seek out partners other than the paid kind.
Dealing with people in any capacity other than professional was a strain. He wasn't a charmer who knew how to pick up women, and he didn't arm himself with the latest jokes and sports statistics to entertain company. The things he liked to talk about were as effective at prompting others' hasty departure as small talk was for him.
Bridget, however, was not only highly intelligent but one of the most alluring women he had ever encountered, maybe because she wasn't as transparent to him as most people were.
And she was hot.
As much as Turner liked to believe he was all brain and not susceptible to primal urges, apparently they were still there, lying dormant until the right woman triggered their resurgence.
And yet, he could have stifled his immediate and quite disturbing attraction to the doctor if not for the mixed signals she was sending him. Those subtle flirtatious comments confused him. Was she like that with all her patients?
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Making "Leftover Women": Understanding the Discourses Surrounding China's Single Women
Without discourse, there is no social reality, and without understanding discourse, we cannot understand our reality, our experiences, or ourselves. – Phillips Nelson and Cynthia Hardy in Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction, 2002
A viral 2016 YouTube video titled "Marriage Market Takeover" was the Western world's awakening to the word sheng nü or "leftover women" (SK-II, 2016). Sheng nü refers to young urban women in China who are professionally successful, but, according to the Chinese Ministry of Education, have overly high expectations for marriage partners and thus are 'left behind' in the marriage market (To, 2015). Produced by popular East Asian makeup brand SK-II, the video depicts women who self-identify as "leftover" pushing back against the stereotypes associated with the label. The use of this derogatory term has created a rhetorical environment in which being labeled as "leftover" merits a de facto slew of judgements as well as romantic disinterest from men.
After decades of a one-child policy and an economic culture that led families to favor male children, China is experiencing the coming-of-age of children born during an unparalleled sex ratio imbalance. Inevitably, a large population of men is unable to find spouses. In the eyes of the government organizations that define and encourage the use of sheng nü rhetoric, successful women not marrying adds to their population conundrum. It is more straightforward for the state to blame the "overly high expectations" of women for the "marriage squeeze" than facing the impossible project of reversing grave "demographic masculinization" (Guilmoto, 2012).
The era of sheng nü rhetoric is by no means the first time Chinese society has been confronted by questions regarding gender roles. Throughout the twentieth century, women's movements in China were in constant negotiation between childbearing responsibilities and labor expectations (Lu, 2004). The New Culture and May Fourth movements in the 1910s and 1920s laid the groundwork for the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) view of gender equality, notably that equal education and labor expectations for women and men are necessary to the success of a modern nation (Li, 2013)*. While gender parity in labor is a Party platform, in practice this policy never shifted the traditional view that women's primary utility to the state is reproduction.
Of modern women's movements, Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (1999) says,
Feminism in China today differs both from Western feminism as well as other Third World situations in that it is emerging from a 'state feminism' administered by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This means that Chinese feminism will remain linked to state feminism, and at the same time, it may also develop critical discourses surrounding this link (Yang, M.M.-H, 1999).
Chinese feminism is inexorably linked to the - sometimes contradictory - values of the CCP, and thus should be evaluated in this historical context. Sheng nü rhetoric reflects the constant contradictions seen through the history of Chinese women's struggles.
While "Marriage Market Takeover" was the first international recognition of the term, sheng nü is more than just a popular phrase used to sell products to single women or draw foreign audience's attention. The term's existence also represents a confluence of Chinese state discourses. A robust understanding of sheng nü comes only with the recognition of the impact of both gender discourse and suzhi ("quality") discourse, a metric of quality of life in China. Discourse in this context can be understood as a realm of human action, speech, and text that uses power to redefine what we know to be true (Powers, 2013). Textual analysis adds to an understanding of the ways these two discourses, or constructions of reality, are employed to create an environment in which sheng nü rhetoric can thrive.
"While gender parity in labor is a Party platform, in practice this policy never shifted the traditional view that women's primary utility to the state is reproduction."
Discourse analysis is a methodology that does not only explain how to study society but also endeavors to explicate the creation and knowledge production in this realm. Discourse analysis does not take facts or existence at face value; it forces questions of how our truths came to be. A discourse analysis is an examination of the discourses enacted in everyday practice such as language, texts and speech, and the impact of these systems on people (Phillips and Hardy, 2002: 6). Discourse analysis is also a method widely considered to be a way to access a subject through a feminist lens. Professor Stephanie Riger says of feminist scholar Shulamit Reinharz's argument about such methods, "[f]eminism is most useful as a set of questions that challenge the prevailing asymmetries of power and androcentric assumptions in science and society" (Riger, 1992: 737; Reinharz and Davidman, 1992). Through a discourse analysis concerned primarily with identifying power and oppression in Chinese society, an audience can access a feminist viewpoint.
A discourse analysis has two central parts: structural analysis, an examination of the present functioning of the discourse; and power analysis, an analysis of power relations and their conservation within the discourse (Powers, 2013). Part I of this series will cover the structural analysis through an examination of three Women of China English Monthly magazine articles, and Part II will discuss the power analysis and future implications through two music videos.
Women of China English Monthly was selected as the societal understanding of sheng nü rhetoric is informed by many of its articles (Gu, 2014; Yun, 2012a, 2012b). This magazine is also an example of how gender and suzhi discourses are deployed by government-produced media.
Writing within a discourse allows the author to recognize and legitimize certain identities. For instance, the articles utilize gender discourse to delineate men and women by characteristics of personality, role in the family, and essentialist expectations. Women are defined in a subordinate position, echoing the argument that women are granted status by their husbands and children (Yu, 2004). Those that fall outside the defined categories are relegated and shamed through mechanisms such as sheng nü rhetoric.
"How to Define a Virtuous Wife and Loving Mother in Modern Society?" by Gu Wentong (2014) highlights the modern Chinese woman as one who can balance a role in the family and a professional career, a product of Maoist expectations of full employment. Gu (2014) writes,
Influenced by [traditional Chinese concepts], many people believe a woman must give up her career, to take care of her family, if she wants to be a virtuous wife and a loving mother. 'What an outdated idea! An amiable, capable woman can strike a balance between family and work,' says Icy Water. 'In fact, many women believe looking after their husband and children is their duty rather than a burden.'(Gu, 2014).
Interviewee Icy Water articulates norms within Chinese gender discourse when they state a familial caretaker role is inherent to a woman's identity. Along with the interview, the article's title indicates the significant value placed on being a "virtuous wife and loving mother" (Gu, 2014). The phrase is a chengyu (an idiomatic phrase) repeated throughout the piece to indicate a woman's identity is constructed primarily in relation to others (Sievers, 1983: 22-23). Gu's central argument assumes that inherent to the identity of a woman is the goal of being a wife and mother. From this article, readers can deduce gender discourse is used to define women as having acquiescent personalities and a drive toward essentialist goals such as childbearing and caretaking.
Contrastingly, the letter-from-the-editor "Men Should Exude Warmth" (Yun, 2012a) provides an example of how gender discourse delineates men. The piece's central thesis is that men are defined by their agency. Yun writes, "[a]ll men should think about their responsibilities; real men accept risks and responsibilities without expectations of rewards"(Yun, 2012a). Describing men in relation to their responsibility implies choice and control; this description is in opposition to the way women are defined within state-regulated gender discourse, as bodies that function for the reproductive needs of the state. The phrase "real men" points to the author using his position of authority to prescribe how a man who is acceptable within mainstream gender discourse should act.
Hence, gender discourse is deployed throughout the articles to reinforce the readers' understanding of women as vessels of reproduction and men as those with authority. As collective understanding, these definitions create an environment ripe for criticism of women prioritizing education or career over marriage and childrearing, as in the case of sheng nü.
More meritocratic than gender discourse, suzhi discourse centers on a person's ability to increase society's overall quality. Goals of modernization coupled with fear of falling behind motivate the government to employ and encourage the use of suzhi discourse. Suzhi encompasses a range of qualities, from attractiveness to salary to real estate holdings, and provides an element of competition (Kipnis, 2006) As in the case of defining sheng nü as women whose standards are "too high," suzhi discourse allows the government to praise members of society they deem to have the most value while exiling those who do not meet their strict standards.
"... [G]ender discourse is deployed throughout the articles to reinforce the readers' understanding of women as vessels of reproduction and men as those with authority."
"Pursuing Happiness" is also a letter from Editor-in-Chief Yun Pengju (2012b), published in March 2012. Yun writes, "[m]arriage is a big event in one's life. It not only tests the feelings between a man and a woman, but also their education, virtues, abilities and personalities" (Yun, 2012b). Societal standards assume that a person will look for a partner with a similar level of suzhi. In "unbalanced" couples, it is more acceptable for a woman to marry a man with higher suzhi than vice versa (The Economist, 2013). The government encourages use of suzhi to ensure "high quality" couples while shaming women who struggle to find a partner due to their demographic characteristics (Kipnis, 2006).
Suzhi is also used to justify encouraging women's prioritization of marriage over personal or professional goals. In "How to Define a Virtuous Wife and Loving Mother in Modern Society?," Gu (2014) writes,
Yun believes intelligence and benevolence contribute to a woman's strength. A woman, especially one who is a mother and a wife, is the core of her family, and a happy family helps lay the foundation for a harmonious society. Thus, women, collectively, are an important force that advances global peace and development (Gu, 2014).
The message here is that intelligence and benevolence are desirable qualities in women not only because they attract partners, but because they positively impact wider society. In this case, suzhi discourse is used to pose a woman's identity as mother and wife as part of a broader moral goal.
When articles like those evaluated above discuss gender and suzhi, they are perpetuating government goals. They are appraising national values and morality. They are evaluating labor divisions in families and throughout the state. Writers adopt gender and suzhi discourse to construct the norms that allow for sheng nü rhetoric to flourish. Evaluating these discourses in the context of sheng nü rhetoric allows for a more full understanding of the implications of the term and ways it can be successfully opposed.
Sarah Lubiner has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Gender Studies from Tufts University. She works at Public Citizen, a progressive non-profit located in Washington, D.C., and is a hotline advocate with the DC Rape Crisis Center. Follow her on Instagram: @sarahacadia
*Beginning in 1916, the New Culture Movement was sparked by a desire to rid the new Republic of outdated customs and replace them with modern (and sometimes Western) traditions. Where the women's movements leading up to the 1911 revolution were centered around "women's duty and their rights," the New Culture Movement was concerned with the individualization of women's personalities. The Movement was led by elite intellectuals and gender equality was integrated into its goals. The May Fourth Movement began on May 4th, 1919 and was a series of strikes, protests, and civil unrest provoked by anger at government policies seen as giving in to imperialism. Women were originally left out of the Movement's actions but a large number of women, from university students to factory workers, insisted on partaking. The women rallied support for the Movement among all social classes and, significantly, mobilized women workers for a political cause for the very first time (Lu, 2004).
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Gu, W. (2014). How to Define a Virtuous Wife and Loving Mother in Modern Society?. Women of China English Monthly, (July), pp. 48-49.
Guilmoto, C. (2011). Skewed Sex Ratios at Birth and Future Marriage Squeeze in China and India, 2005–2100. Demography, 49(1), pp.77-100. See "Marriage Squeeze Indicators."
Kipnis, A. (2006). Suzhi: A Keyword Approach. The China Quarterly, 186, pp. 295–313.
Li, Y. (2013). Women's Movement and Change of Women's Status in China. Journal of International Women's Studies 1, pp. 30–40.
Lu, Meiyi. (2004). The Awakening of Chinese Women and the Women's Movement in the Early Twentieth Century. In: S. Mow, T. Jie, Z. Bijun, eds., Holding up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future, 1st ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of NY, pp. 55-70.
Phillips, N., Hardy, C. (2002). Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 6.
Powers, P. (2013). Rawlinson's Three Axes of Structural Analysis: A Useful Framework for a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. Aporia, 5, pp. 6–12.
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Sievers, S.L. (1983). Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 22-23.
SK-II. (2016). SK-II: Marriage Market Takeover. (Please turn on subtitle). Accessed on August 5, 2018.
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Виктор Горслей (Хорсли) (, 14 апреля 1857 — 16 июля 1916) — британский учёный нейрофизиолог, хирург, основоположник мировой нейрохирургии. Известен как человек, совершивший первую операцию по удалению спинальной опухоли, внёсший большой вклад в лечение микседемы и многих нейрохирургических заболеваний. Ярый противник алкоголизма и сторонник эмансипации женщин.

Биография
Виктор Александр Горслей (14 апреля 1857 — 16 июля 1916) родился в Кенсингтоне в Лондоне в семье известного художника, члена королевской академии — Джона Колкотта Хорсли. Был назван в честь королевы Виктории, которая стала его крёстной матерью.

Обучался в школе Кренбука в Кенте, после окончания которой изучал медицину в университетском колледже в Лондоне. С 1884 по 1890 работал в Брауновском институте, с 1886 года ассоциированный профессор по хирургии в национальном госпитале эпилептиков и паралитиков (сейчас Национальный госпиталь неврологии и нейрохирургии), профессор патологии (1887—1896) и профессор клинической медицины (1899—1902) в университетском колледже в Лондоне.

4 октября 1887 женился на Элдред Брамвелл, дочери Фредерика Брамвелла, от которой имел двоих сыновей и одну дочь (Сьюард, Освальд и Памела).

В 1886 году он был принят в Лондонское королевское общество, в 1894 году Горслей награждён Королевской медалью Лондонского королевского общества, а в 1902 году был возведён в рыцарское звание.

Во время Первой мировой войны был направлен в качестве полковника медицинской службы британской армии в Египет, во время Дарданелльской операции. Затем был командирован в Месопотамию, где скоропостижно скончался в Амаре (современный Ирак) в возрасте 59 лет от лихорадки.

Научная деятельность
Виктор Горслей впервые удалил спинальную опухоль в 1887 г. Вильям Ослер говорит об этом случае как о «самой блистательной операции во всей истории хирургии». Она была проведена у 42-летнего капитана Джилби, который в течение ряда лет жаловался на боль в спине, слабость и онемение конечностей. Врачи приписывали его страдания межрёберной невралгии, аневризме и неврозу. Когда ноги у капитана Джилби совсем онемели и стали парализованными, благодаря знакомым он был проконсультирован доктором Говерсом, который поставил диагноз опухоли спинного мозга и рекомендовал операцию. Во время операции Горслей вначале опухоли не обнаружил. Однако затем он дополнительно скусил дужку вышерасположенного позвонка и, в конце концов, обнаружил и удалил миндалевидную опухоль на уровне 3 и 4 задних грудных корешков слева. Больной полностью выздоровел и прожил ещё 30 лет.

Разработанный им подход к гассеровому узлу через птериональный доступ он применил при лечении тригеминальной невралгии в 1890 г. Однако в связи с тем, что операция оказалась неудачной (больная умерла через 7 часов после операции) в дальнейшем Горслей её длительно не применял. В 1893 году независимо от Горслея схожую операцию произвёл немецкий хирург Федор Краузе, которая впоследствии (после модификация Хартлея) стала носить название «операции Хартлея-Краузе». Впоследствии приехавший в Великобританию в 1900 г. будущий основатель американской нейрохирургии Гарвей Кушинг так описывает проведение Горслеем операции по удалению гассерова узла:
Горслей поднялся наверх и за 5 минут ввёл больную в эфирный наркоз. Операция продлилась 15 минут — сделав громадную дыру в черепе женщины, приподняв височную долю — кровь везде — затолкав много марли в среднюю черепную ямку он вырезал узел и на этом закончил операцию. На улицу он вышел не более чем через час, как зашёл в дом.

Он разработал много нововведений в технике нейрохирургических операций, в частности гемостатический костный воск.

В 1908 году предложил совместно с Робертом Кларком аппарат для проведения стереотаксических нейрохирургических вмешательств (т. н. аппарат Горслея-Кларка). Данный аппарат позволил чётко локализовать местоположение глубинных структур головного мозга.

Как нейрофизиолог исследовал функции головного мозга, преимущественно коры больших полушарий на животных и людях. Раздражая различные отделы коры головного мозга и внутренней капсулы, он высказал свои предположения об их функциональном значении. Эти исследования в дальнейшем послужили основой для проведения хирургического лечения эпилепсии. Между 1884 и 1886 гг. впервые в мире, до Краузе, Фёрстера и Пенфилда, провёл интраоперационную электростимуляцию для определения эпилептогенного очага.

В 1886 году произвёл первую успешную экспериментальную гипофизэктомию. Разработал транскраниальный подход для удаления опухолей гипофиза, который по его совету использовал Франк Томас Поль (Frank Thomas Paul). Сам лично произвёл 4 успешные операции по поводу опухолей гипофиза.

Тем не менее, Горслей оставался прежде всего общим хирургом. Например, он проводил аналогию между субдуральным и внутрибрюшинным пространством. В частности, при сифилитическом поражении центральной нервной системы он предлагал орошение субдурального пространства раствором ртути.

Известен также как пионер изучения функции щитовидной железы. В 1884 году показал в эксперименте, что тиреоидэктомия (удаление щитовидной железы) вызывает микседему. Занимаясь лечением микседемы и кретинизма, вызванными недостаточным уровнем тиреоидных гормонов, он впервые предложил с лечебной целью применять экстракт щитовидной железы животных (обезьян).

Основал «Журнал Патологии» (Journal of Pathology).

Общественная деятельность
Одним из глубоких убеждений Виктора Горслея была непримиримая позиция относительно злоупотребления алкоголем. Наблюдая за множеством поступающих в его больницу пострадавших вследствие алкоголизма, Горслей вступает в общество трезвости. Вскоре он становится вице-президентом национального общества трезвости (National Temperance League) и председателем британского медицинского общества трезвости (British Medical Temperance Association). В 1907 году он даже опубликовывает книгу «Алкоголь и человеческий организм».

К другим сторонам гражданской позиции Виктора Горслея относятся поддержка движения эмансипации женщин, высказывания о необходимости медицинской реформы по оказанию бесплатной медицинской помощи рабочему классу.

В 1886 году был назначен председателем британской государственной комиссии по изучению вакцины против бешенства разработанной Луи Пастером. Оценив результаты её применения развернул широкую кампанию по применению антирабической вакцины в Великобритании.

Интересный факт
После смерти Горслея поговаривали, что тяжёлое протекание лихорадки, приведшей к смерти, было вызвано неприятием Горслеем алкоголя, который использовался британскими военными в качестве профилактического и лечебного средства от алиментарных инфекций в южных странах.

Память
В ведущем неврологическом и нейрохирургическом госпитале в Ливерпуле отделение реанимации и интенсивной терапии названо в честь Виктора Горслея.

Монографии
 Functions of the Marginal Convolutions (Функции краевой извилины) (1884).
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 Alcohol and the Human Body (Алкоголь и человеческий организм) (1907).

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GFirst's outgoing chair shares her pride in a job well done
By Ian Mean Business West Gloucestershire director Photo shows Roland Emmans of HSBC
Leaving school at 16 after being told "I wasn't capable of doing A-Levels," Dr Diane Savory OBE has become something of a business icon in Gloucestershire.
She has just left the chair of the county's Local Enterprise Partnership (GFirstLEP) after a ten year innings during which she has, in my view, played a major role in developing the business voice of Gloucestershire in Whitehall. She has been succeeded by Ruth Dooley, partner and head of the litigation support team at accountants Hazlewoods LLP, which has 412 staff and partners.
When I ask her about the key projects she believes have made a real difference to Gloucestershire, she confirms my view.
"One thing that Gloucestershire didn't have before the LEP became established was a national presence at central government level", she says.
"I think we have a voice there now which we didn't have before-I would say that is an achievement".
And Diane is proud of the LEP's network of Growth Hubs to help businesses.
"They are the apple of my eye. They were literally something I needed when I was growing the business. I wanted to go to a place for help and see other like-minded people.
"So, to see the whole Growth Hub network rolled out was an absolute joy".
GFirst LEP appoint Ruth Dooley as new Chair
And for the LEP to get people to realise that the growing cyber sector was a huge opportunity for the county is, she believes, so very important.
"Wearing my retail hat (She sits on the ministerially led Retail Sector Council and is on the board of the High Street Task Force), the LEP did something really great with Stroud by supporting the new Five Valleys shopping centre."
Diane, of course, is a retailing expert having made her name with the Cult Clothing team and then Superdry. She played a big part in its success going public.
That interest in retailing was originally born out of studying retail design and a job after college at the old Peter Richards fashion chain in Cheltenham.
"Growing the LEP was rather like Superdry-you had to feel your way. You had to work out what needed doing. In my case, it was joining it up more".
I ask Diane about the forthcoming government review over local government devolution and LEPs. My understanding is that it will probably give more authority and financial support direct to local authorities.
"That's all very well", Diane says. "But it is about being fleet of foot with opportunities-not having to go through years of due process in order to maximise those opportunities.
"LEPs have been able to get the work done, so, if local authorities are the way forward, it just needs to perhaps be given a different rule book to work with".
You don't see any watering down of LEPs?, I ask.
"I see them concentrating more on business-taking away some of the stuff which quite rightly gravitates to local authorities like infrastructure and the like.
"I don't have a problem with that. Growth Hubs are a good example of how business gravitates towards business, and LEPs can lead organisations like that.
"They can canvass business opinion and give data to government. One of the things that LEPs have been brilliant at during Covid is providing central government with real life information."
Who did she look up to?
"My natural gravitation is towards my parents who taught me to listen to others and be receptive to other people's ideas and opinions.
"I have met several great people on this journey and it's difficult to pick out one. But Michael Heseltine was quite inspiring with so much experience and wiseness".
And what of the future for Diane? My guess is that government may be calling soon.
*Ian Mean is a former editor of the Western Daily Press and is a board member of GFirstLEP
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2 PSU Officers Placed On Paid Leave Following Fatal Shooting
by Ericka Cruz Guevarra OPB June 29, 2018 12:02 p.m. | Updated: June 29, 2018 5:26 p.m. | Portland, Ore.
UPDATE (June 29, 5:26 p.m. PT) — Two Portland State University officers have been placed on paid administrative leave following a shooting Friday morning that left one person dead.
The university identified those officers as Shawn McKenzie and James Dewey. McKenzie has worked in public safety for the university since 2002, and Dewey since 2014. Both became sworn campus police officers in 2016. Sworn officers are armed.
The Portland Police Bureau said the two officers were involved in the shooting death of a man near Southwest 6th Avenue and Southwest College street in downtown Portland early Friday. It's the first officer-involved shooting at Portland State.
Multiple agencies, including the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office and the Portland Police Bureau Homicide Detail, are conducting an investigation into the incident.
"I want to express my concern about the fatal officer-involved shooting early this morning," said University President Rahmat Shoureshi in a statement. "I know there are many questions about the incident, and we want to keep you informed as best we can … I have asked our Campus Public Safety Chief to conduct a thorough internal assessment and evaluation of this incident as well as our policies and procedures."
Keyaira Smith, a witness who filmed the encounter, described an altercation involving screaming and yelling on a street corner.
Video footage appears to show several people involved. Smith identified a man "in blue" at the center of the scuffle.
"The guy in blue had used some racial slurs earlier when they were in the street kiddy corner to where they were in this video and that's what brought it to this point, and started the whole thing," Smith said.
According to Smith, the man who was shot was "trying to be a good samaritan" and break up the fight that had ensued. University police appeared, Smith said, but did not appear to try to stop the fight.
Smith said the victim, who had a gun attached to his right side, tripped while trying to break up the fight.
"The gun slipped out of the holster when he had fallen, and I think he may have tried to retrieve it," Smith said. "Then they said 'gun.'"
That's when police fired, she said.
"There was absolutely no hesitation at all," she said. "[The officer] went straight for his gun."
Smith said the victim's back was turned to police when he was shot.
The university's board of trustees cast a controversial vote in 2014 to employ sworn armed police officers on campus.
At the time, the Portland Police Bureau was also on board with the University Public Safety Department's plan to commission sworn officers. PSU was "almost exclusively" policed by PPB, according to background documents on the 2014 resolution, which resulted in "considerable wait times to calls for a police response."
The decision drew backlash from students who worried it would make the university less safe.
"I am so worried about having armed police at school," said a student responding to an anonymous student survey conducted by Diversity and Multicultural Student Services in 2014.
"I am a tall African American male. I have had to swallow my pride too many times to get away from 'Jumpy Officers' alive," the student said. "I hate to think of paying so much money to be at PSU and have the potential to have negative experiences with someone I help to pay."
Portland State University has not identified the man killed by the officers. The Portland Police Bureau has referred questions about the incident to PSU. In a release late Friday, PSU said it will not be doing interviews or releasing further information at this point.
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What To Make with Shredded Chicken?
What to make with shredded chicken? We've rounded up our easy healthy shredded chicken recipes + info on shredded chicken calories and nutrition.
Who's ready for Healthy Shredded Chicken Recipes?
If you're wondering what to do with shredded chicken, these Healthy Shredded Chicken Recipes are just for you! This post is all about easy shredded chicken recipes but here's a little guide around the blog if you're wondering How to Shred Chicken (without using and fork and knife!), How to cook a whole chicken in the instant pot, or the fastest recipe for shredded chicken.
I got home yesterday from literally what felt like the longest day ever, and was like nooooooooo I don't want to cook. But I knew I went grocery shopping and had food in the fridge that I could toss together into a respectable dinner.
In times like that (which seems to happen every week), who wants to cook? Eric and I don't typically make it to the house until about 7-8pm at night whether it's CrossFit, evening client appointments, or just a late night at the office by the time we get home we are TIRED, and who wants to cook and clean at that point? I mean it's practically bed time.
So I wanted to share my go to shredded chicken meals when I just can't muster up much energy to cook. I will prep many of these shredded chicken recipe ideas in advance so that I can just pop it in the oven or reheat it when I get home to make it even faster.
But come on, most of the time I don't even have it that much together so as long as I can prep Instant Pot Shredded Chicken in advance. I actually keep shredded leftover chicken in the freezer so that my protein is cooked and ready to toss into a quick weeknight meal.
How many calories in shredded chicken?
If you're all aboard the shredded chicken train, check out these recipes using shredded chicken! What to do with shredded chicken is no longer a question with all of these recipes at your fingertips!
Shredded chicken is a game changer. Whether you're using rotisserie chicken, boiled chicken breast or chicken thighs, or make chicken in the slow cooker on instant pot, we've got you covered with our favorite shredded chicken recipes so that you don't get bored!
I'm always trying to think of new ways to use shredded chicken to keep weeknights interesting… do you have any suggestions or favorite ways to use shredded chicken?
Great ideas. I use a vegan shredded chicken (though I'm not vegan) and these recipes translate well.
Mmmmm ! I am sooooo getting some shredded chicken tomorrow! There is this grocery story called Gelson's that has the BEST shredded chicken EVER!!!
Love this line up – so much variety here! I am off to towel off the drool soaked chin!
Great ideas! I definitely have those nights when I just don't want to cook, which end up being take out nights. These ideas are so much better!
Take out nights… yum. I think that's happening tonight.
I love all these ideas! <3 Thank you for the inspiration!
I made the enchiladas and that recipe will become one of my go-to weeknight dinners. It was quick to assemble and received high marks from my family. I made the stuffed shells a few weeks ago and they are delicious!
Your recipes keep me inspired, Kristina!
Okay I want all of these for dinner!! Everything looks amazing, especially the chicken pesto stuffed shells!!
hahaha! That is a favorite!
Those are all great ideas… you could also use in pasta or in a stir fry!
Ah yes, stir fry! I need to do more of those on weeknights.
My readers would LOVE this!! Sharing on Facebook later today 🙂 Thanks for the awesome weeknight meal inspiration!
Thanks for sharing Katie 🙂 Happy to hear it!
I actually have the remainder of a rotisserie chicken in my fridge right now-will have to try one of these recipes!
Ah, rotisserie chicken is clutch.


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Q: How to measure performance of eval "def ..." and define_method While going through the exercises in RubyMonk (link behind paywall, so not provided), in order to measure the performance of defining methods with eval compared to define_method the following code is provided:
require 'benchmark'

class Monk
  eval "def zen; end"

  define_method(:zen_block) {}
end

monk = Monk.new

Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
  x.report("eval zen: ") { 1_000_000.times { monk.zen } }
  x.report("define_method zen: ") { 1_000_000.times { monk.zen_block } }
end

As a newbie to Ruby, my question is: when are the methods zen and zen_block actually "compiled" (not sure if it's the right word) by the interpreter? It seems unlikely that both zen and zen_block are redefined on each call. From what I've understood so far, it seems to me that to measure performance, the right way would be:
require 'benchmark'

class Monk
  def with_eval
    eval "def zen; end"
  end

  def with_define_method
    self.class.send(:define_method,:zen_block) {}
  end
end

Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
  x.report("eval zen: ") { 1_000_000.times { monk.with_eval } }
  x.report("define_method zen: ") { 1_000_000.times { monk.with_define_method } }
end

The first block produces these results in my machine (I've raised the number of iterations to 1 million to make the times a bit more robust):
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------------------
eval zen:             0.070000   0.000000   0.070000 (  0.074196)
define_method zen:    0.120000   0.000000   0.120000 (  0.118621)
---------------------------------------------- total: 0.190000sec

Results from the second block (my proposal):
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------------------
eval zen:             7.740000   0.000000   7.740000 (  7.743741)
define_method zen:    1.620000   0.000000   1.620000 (  1.617666)
---------------------------------------------- total: 9.360000sec

A: The benchmark you show from RubyMonk isn't measuring how fast defining methods with eval or define_method is. It's measuring how fast calling the resulting methods is. That's why it reads the way it does.
For reasons which may not be obvious to you until you get to understand more about the implementation of the Ruby interpreter, the speed of methods defined through eval or define_method are generally not the same.

A: Thanks for pointing this out to us.
You are right, the topic should have been worded as follows: 'Comparing the performance of dynamic methods that have been created by eval v/s methods created by define_method'.
We'll be fixing this bug in our content later today.
Although the performance delta of defining a method is an important consideration, we've never seen it to be of much practical significance (in ruby at least), especially because the AST will get cached.
Tejas
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For Patricia DeNinno — my favorite aunt — who fondly remembers living in Blowing Rock when she was 4 years old. On my dusky inaugural trek to Blowing Rock, some
The Blowing Rock: A Love Story
At more than a billion years old, this ancient outcrop captured human imagination, inspired a legend, and became one of the state's earliest travel attraction. Our fascination with The Blowing Rock endures — and keeps drawing us west.
by Joseph Bathanti
Leslie Restivo and her dog, Cooper, are part of a long tradition: For generations, The Blowing Rock has beckoned visitors to stand 3,000 feet above the Johns River Gorge and take in spectacular views.
photograph by Thomas Moors
For Patricia DeNinno — my favorite aunt — who fondly remembers living in Blowing Rock when she was 4 years old.
On my dusky inaugural trek to Blowing Rock, some years back, I wended up and up U.S. Highway 321 North, along blade-thin switchbacks hacked into the ever-increasing altitude, nothing but the flimsiest purchase on the quaking blacktop tethering me to earth.
When, finally, I crossed the Eastern Continental Divide at 3,600 feet or so and reached Blowing Rock proper, coiling fog cloaked Main Street. I spied the shrouded beacon of Tijuana Fats, since closed, and barged through its front door just in time for last call. The restaurant was abandoned, except for a few hangers-on and the mop-up crew. The kitchen had closed, but I managed to score a beer, chips, and salsa. I sat brooding contentedly in my bright corner, until spirited out with the diehards. Beyond the threshold, the world had disappeared.
The Town of Blowing Rock, incorporated in 1889, takes its name — and the image on its seal — from the nearby landmark, which helped the charming village grow into a destination in its own right. photograph by Thomas Moors
Back on Main Street, I couldn't find my car. I couldn't find my hand. The impenetrable fog was a living thing, hauntingly cinematic, the seductive moorish mist of Wuthering Heights. I'd entered a fable, stumbled through a magic portal secreted in the ether into a tiny hamlet of romance and danger. I froze there on the sidewalk, wondering what in the world to do. The shops had long closed. The gauzy streetlamps flickered anemically. I was lost.
My invisible car, parked along the sidewalk curb, was but a few meters off, and I minced in what I hoped was the right direction. Finally, I discovered it, fired it up, and engaged the headlights. They proved useless, simply churning up roiling billows of relentless fog. Not a soul, not an automobile, was around. Seemingly the only person left on earth, I motored blindly along — hopefully toward my lodging — at two miles an hour, a flashlight and my head dangling from my open window to locate the yellow line bisecting Main Street, while the interior of the car pulsed with vapor.
Today, an observation deck at The Blowing Rock offers long-range views of the Blue Ridge. photograph by Thomas Moors
The next morning was glorious — blinding in an entirely different vein. The fog had not quite dissipated, but rather had transformed into swirling wreaths and buntings of alabaster down, regally scarving the distant, ancient Appalachian peaks and ridges. I had to look away, shield my eyes, as the sun torched the heavens — perhaps like that first storied morning, recorded in Genesis, when light was first conjured. The illumination was that sudden, miraculous.
Revelation often occurs at such magnificent altitude, and is precisely why people are beckoned to places like Blowing Rock. One experiences, perhaps, a kind of hubris and insignificance simultaneously. You can see so far beyond the boundaries of self. The known world stretches miles and miles, counties and counties — and the beauty of that immensity is shocking, humbling, at times daunting. The firmament perches at the brim of your hat.
But 12 inches from plummeting more than 3,000 feet, I stood that morning at the edge of an ancient stone ledge and gazed through the eye-level wisps of cottony pink fog, shot with excelsior, at the distant Piedmont. I had to back off. The proximity to Heaven was a tad dizzying.
The Blowing Rock itself, the village's namesake, is unassumingly grand — a gargoyle-like gneiss (a kind of striated, metamorphic rock) promontory that looms approximately 277 stories over Johns River Gorge and affords a mythic view that, in truth, defies description. It is the proverbial wild blue yonder, the abyss, reminiscent of what the great poet Elizabeth Bishop, in her poem "The Fish," calls "the terrible oxygen." It is frighteningly exhilarating, a palpable adrenaline jolt. Standing in the void, you unequivocally reckon the electricity and grandeur of sheer altitude, from your boot soles to the roof of your skull. Across the marbled amethyst chasm, Grandfather and Grandmother mountains reassuringly preside, as well as a panorama that takes in Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in mainland eastern North America, and Table Rock, Hawksbill, and Beech mountains.
Since 1933, The Blowing Rock has been proclaimed North Carolina's oldest travel attraction. The complex features trails and gardens; an observation tower guaranteed to induce vertigo, where folks stage weddings choreographed quite literally in the clouds; the main building overflowing with gifts, souvenirs, and memorabilia; an annex gift and snack shop; and a photo gallery and museum, an invaluable archive of truly fascinating vintage photographs and artifacts that brilliantly narrate the intrepid history of The Blowing Rock, but also of the idyllic, storybook village, founded in 1889, christened after it.
More than a century ago, a brave motorist found a different vantage point. Photography courtesy of IMAGES OF AMERICA: BLOWING ROCK BY DONNA AKERS WARMUTH (ARCADIA PUBLISHING 2004)
The site is still plenty wild. It's a precipice nearly three times taller than the Empire State Building. The U.S. Geological Survey believes that The Blowing Rock is roughly 1,055 million — more than a billion — years old. However, two decades into the 21st century, approaching its 90th anniversary since opening officially as a branded tourist destination, the site has definitely been tamed. Nevertheless, it's easy to imagine what it must have been like in the old days, without the fences and rails and warnings, in bold red, to Climb at Your Own Risk.
Those early photos in the gallery attest to the precarity: folks teetering from the rock, perched in the troposphere, taking mad chances for immortality, one false step from kingdom come. There's an unforgettable daredevil shot of a chap, hands intrepidly on his hips, standing on what seems to be the seat of an early 20th-century automobile, perhaps a Pierce-Arrow. The car is parked astonishingly at 45 degrees on the rock itself. This very image appears in Donna Akers Warmuth's Blowing Rock, part of the Images of America series. It's actually an antique postcard, with a 1910 postmark and a headnote in the upper left corner: "America's Switzerland. The unrivalled Blowing Rock Country. The famous 'Blowing Rock' (altitude 4090 feet) near Blowing Rock, N.C."
The earlier allusion to Wuthering Heights is anything but arbitrary. The story of The Blowing Rock — and, by association, the eponymous village — is, after all, a love story, rooted in lore and legend. The language describing the legend varies, depending on the source, but I prefer, especially for its unapologetic sentimentality and swooning diction, the 152 words in greening bronze relief, installed in the early 1970s, at the site of the rock itself.
According to the legend of The Blowing Rock — said to be recorded in the 1800s and preserved in bronze near the rock itself — gusting winds reunited two lovers when one leapt into the gorge. photograph by DANIEL WILSON/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
It begins in the manner of fairy and tall tales — "It is said …" — and goes on to recount how a Chickasaw tribal chief, distraught over "the white man's admiration of his beautiful daughter," journeyed from the plains and "hid her atop a high craggy cliff …" — in this case, The Blowing Rock — in the keep of her mother. There she remained, so reminiscent of the "maiden in the tower/damsel in distress" archetype, cloistered for an indeterminate amount of time. "One day, she spied a Cherokee brave in the wilderness below and playfully shot an arrow at him" — an unmistakable homage to Cupid, the winged Roman god of love and desire.
Thusly summoned, the Cherokee man predictably "appeared before her wigwam and in the days that followed they became sweethearts." Such romances are never without the requisite complications. In the very next sentence, we learn that "[one] evening a prophetic red sky beckoned him to return to his people." Again, I love the poetic schmaltz and stock melodrama. "The lovely maiden begged him not to go." Being "torn between his love for her and his duty to his people, he leaped from the rock into the ominous night."
Utterly bereft, the young woman fell to her knees and "prayed to the spirits for his return." Such lovelorn petitions, in the medium of legend, are always rewarded. (This tale also harkens back to Penelope's mythic wait for Odysseus.) Lo, "[A] strange heavenward breeze blew her lover back into her outstretched arms." This fantastically imaginative, compressed snatch of micro-fiction concludes, appropriately, with: "Since that day, this cliff with the mysterious upward winds has been known as The Blowing Rock." We can only surmise that they lived happily ever after, and only the most boorish of spoilsports would dare want more.
I am not, I hope it's plain, that spoilsport. I admire this tale, this ample allegory, exactly as it is. In fact, I hope every jot of it is gospel truth. However, and of course, there exists a scientific explanation for the meteorological aberration upon which the story turns. The towering rock walls of Johns River Gorge create a flume — a deep, slender channel through which the Johns River flows. The northwest wind discharges through that flume with such velocity that it gusts literally upward, designating The Blowing Rock, in a Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon, as "the only place in the world where snow falls upside down."
But let's tarry a moment, because there is, indeed, more. Just an inch or so beneath those 152 words rests a cameo-shaped bronze bas-relief, portraying the actual heartrending reunion of these sweethearts. The Chickasaw woman — headbanded, long-haired, siren-like, indisputably beautiful — kneels in profile, at the very edge of The Blowing Rock. The Cherokee man, in defiance of gravity, levitates in midair above her. His long hair is tied off with a feathered headband. Immortally, they clasp hands. About them, like haloes, swirl upraised ovals to mime the torrential winds, and what can only be a trinity of hovering birds conferring benediction. It is most remarkable, nothing short of authentic iconography. Yet there's something else, and there's no other way to say it: This portrait is rather risqué — in truth, eroticized. Neither sweetheart is, for the most part, clothed. They are breech-clouted at best. Period. The artist who executed this bas-relief, cast in a foundry in Charlotte and installed in the early 1970s, is the late Jack Pentes Jr., a Korean War veteran, who also designed Land of Oz on Beech Mountain. Astoundingly, Pentes extrapolated his bold vision of the sweethearts' tryst solely from the text of the story.
The Blowing Rock proudly claims distinction as one of the state's oldest travel attraction, officially welcoming visitors since Grover Robbins Sr. opened the site in 1933. photograph by Thomas Moors
The author of the original text, purportedly penned in the late 1800s — before that, it surely was passed down in the signature oral tradition of Appalachia — remains anonymous. Likewise, the more recent 152-word version, in bronze at The Blowing Rock, was — again purportedly — adapted and rewritten in the 1920s by an anonymous woman who lived near Camp Yonahlossee. Mired as it is in the apocryphal, the legend of The Blowing Rock is burnished with even more allure and mystery.
Interestingly, that language in bronze is slightly edited in the "Legend of The Blowing Rock" section of the brochure available at The Blowing Rock's gift shop. In it, there is but a lone "white man" in admiration of the young Chickasaw woman. The Cherokee man, at the behest of the woman's "flirtation," not only answers the overture of that fateful arrow but also "[courts] her with songs of his land and they became lovers, wandering the pathless woodlands and along the crystal streams." The image of the two lovers, in the brochure and on the large sign on 321, at the intersection of The Rock Road, directing folks to The Blowing Rock, has been appreciably toned down to accommodate a G rating. The woman still kneels on the rock; the man still floats in midair above her. Their hands are still locked. A massive falcon beats beneath them in the glowing orange and yellow sunset sky. But they are rendered featureless, androgynous silhouettes, yet nonetheless elegiac — all that longing, the timeless wiles of love at dizzying altitudes, thoroughly intact. Forever.
The Blowing Rock
432 The Rock Road
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
theblowingrock.com
This story was published on Feb 23, 2022
Joseph Bathanti
Joseph Bathanti is a former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and a professor of creative writing at Appalachian State University.
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Students realize that school education is limited. But this limit dates from the 1960s. It is therefore necessary to redesign the school programs, to go to the useful and the daily.
Our school programs are refunded each year. Often they are simplified. Other times, finance adds information. The added information is often impossible to apply on everyday life. Moreover, according to the book Leading Mind by Howard Gardner, even if the best schools make the best use of the mix and the practice, it is necessary to admit that the teachers do not check if the pupil will be able to use a theory towards a convenient.
Also the students' lessons are very esoteric and specialized, whereas it is possible to explain very complex theories with understanding the current life.
Mathematics lessons will every have the same approach: theory's statement then theory's demonstration. The student will participate most often with the exercises. Only ambitious or docile students will seem motivated by this forbidding order.
Before, students were trying to use geometry to demonstrate algebra. You see in this article a demonstration of a remarkable identity, by geometry. Thus, with such a demonstration, it is possible that the entire classroom demonstrates, by itself, a remarkable identity. In 2012, a socialist deputy, whom could take over geometry at the heart of school programs, spends time to tell.
These complex directions have a purpose. Only students initiated with the school's interest will be motivated. That is not told to primary. There is indeed a lot of work to tell the school's foundations and the main subjects.
Also, poor students are largely unmotivated with the fact that graduates can not find an attractive job, knowing that 80% of hires are coopted. It is indeed difficult for a poor student, lower recognized, to be admitted for that he really knows to do.
These boring and poorly explained lessons are also meant to become emotional, so we think with the short view, so we do not know how to change society. Indeed accounting studies teach you, besides with professors whom did not practice, that it is enough to have working capital for a company to go well. In fact, you have to know each business sector.
To go further, the curves and the zones representing linear equations or inequations induce that the world can be understood in two dimensions, or that certain problems can not be solved.
This does not brainstorm imagination. Now we know that there is the choice to understand more easily the infinite and our economy, with logarithmic spirals, below. These spirals can easily make sense of demographic change over time, thanks to science.
An explanation of this logarithmic spiral is in the Larouche-Riemann method. You may find it in some economics books. As you can see, this spiral uses 3 dimensions. This allows to better understand some economy's parameters, based on demography, with the cone, the energy's making on the inner curve. The example above is the evolution of a ideal world's growth for a republican society.
Try to solve the doubling of the square, without using measurements.


Like any self-respecting Disney fan I have loved the first 3 seasons of Once Upon a Time, and when it released on UK Netflix along with the brand new episodes from season 4 it was a very exciting moment! I don't want to give any spoilers away for anyone who hasn't caught up yet, so I have to be careful what I say, but I just love the whole concept of having classic fairytale characters with twists and back stories you wouldn't expect.
This brings me onto season 4, and the arrival of the "Frozen" franchise. I love Frozen too (of course) and was pretty excited by the Elsa teaser at the end of season 3. But now that I've watched the episodes I'm very disappointed!
I was hoping for the standard "Once Upon a Time" treatment, where their characters and back stories are quite different to what you know about them. Instead the Frozen characters are EXACTLY the same as in the film. For a start, the costumes are taken straight out of the film and they look totally out of place next to every other character. Then there's the fact that there are no hidden depths to these characters. They are very literal and there's nothing new to learn about them in OUAT. There are even direct quotes and movie references! It's all so cheesy and feels like the series has sold out!
Of course Once Upon a Time is always going to be a little bit cheesy, but the beauty of it is that it's also often quite surprising with the Disney references and what they do with the characters. Doing something as literal as they have with Frozen is just plain boring! The only good thing I can say about it is that the casting of Elsa and Anna was great, but personally I'm glad it was all rounded up by mid-season and I hope that's the last I see of OUAT-does-Frozen!
What did you think? Did you love seeing Frozen in OUAT or were you disappointed too?


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Dr. Emily Noelle Sanchez Ignacio is the IAS Associate Director of Students and Associate Professor of Sociology. She is primarily affiliated with the Ethnic, Gender and Labor Studies Major, which is housed within the Division of Social and Historical Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program. She also is affiliated with the Southeast Asia Center and the Harry Bridges Labor Center at the University of Washington Seattle.
Dr. Ignacio has served as the Chair of the Race and Ethnic Minorities section of the American Sociological Association and an Executive Board member of the Asian American Studies Association. She is currently an Editorial Advisory Board member for the Journal of the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Her book, Building Diaspora: Filipino Cultural Formation on the Internet (2005, Rutgers University Press) examines how Filipinos around the world negotiate identities and form community in relation to Eurocentrism, Orientalism, globalization, and nationalism. Her other articles, particularly "Pro(fits) of a Future Not our Own," critically assess the continued significance and manifestation of racial, social class and other oppressions in what is often referred to as the "post-racial age of Obama".
Currently, she is researching the simultaneous (re)construction of Filipinos, Americans, the Philippines and the United States of America via a close analysis of transnational media, cultural tourism and the Filipino-Bolanon diaspora's responses to the effects of neoliberal economic policies on the small island of Bohol in the Philippines.